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C. E. KNOELLER. CLOTHES DRIBR.-

No. 487,533. Patented Dec. 6, 1892.

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cHARLEsE. KNoELLER, oE vJERSEY CITY, NEw JERSEY, AssiGNoR To JOHN A. SUTHERLAND, oE sAME PLACE.

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,533, dated December 6, 1892.

Application tiled June 4, 1891.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. KNOELLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Driers, of which the following is a specification.

Clothes-driers have heretofore been made in which there are movable slats or arms, which, when out of use can be in a nearlyvertical position and rest upon a shelf with their upper portions within a slotted bracket, and these arms can be turned out into a horizontal position when required for use. In this class of clothes-driers a difficulty has been experienced from the slats or arms and the clothes hung upon them being in the way, especially when the drier is employed in a kitchen or other room.

Mypresent invention relates to the combination, with a clothes-drier having movable arms and supporting shelf and bracket, of a stationary rod supported at its upper and lower ends, and metallic clips or straps fastened to the back of the clothes-drier board and surrounding the vertical rod, so that the clothes-drier can be raised or lowered and held by a catch passing through the bottom of the sliding board and into the stationary rod. By this means the board is available as a means for sliding up the clothes-drier slats and the clothes supported by them, so as to be in a sufficiently-elevated position and out of the way, and by the reverse movement the clothes-drier and clothes can be lowered, and when not in use the clothes-drier can be supported in the elevated position and out of the way.

In the drawings, Figure lis an elevation of the clothes-drier and its support in a folded condition. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3 is a section in larger size of the verticalrod, portions of the board, and the shelf and bracket. Fig. 4 is a detached View of the bracket. Fig. 5 is a plan view with the board and rod in section. Fig. 6 is an elevation ofk the shelf, and Fig. 7 is a plan view of the same.

The slats or arms f are usually of wood, and in their folded or out-of-use position they rest Serial No. 395,061. (No model.)

at their lower ends upon the semicircular shelf e, the edge of which is provided with a rim, and they pass through the slotted bracket cl, and this bracket d and shelf e are fastened permanently to the vertical board or back b, and when the slats or arms are required for use they are drawn up through the slotted bracket d and turned down into a horizontal position, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, so that their inner ends are held by the bracket d. Devices somewhat similar to those have been made and sold on the market. I provide a stationary rod a, permanently fastened at its upper and lower ends and of a suitable length, preferably sufiicient to extend from the ioor t0 the ceiling, and the supports at the top and bottom ends are blocked out, so that the rod, except at the extreme ends, is kept away from the Wall, and the straps and clips 5 are passed around this rod a and securely fastened to the back of the board b, so that this board b is connected with the rod a; but it can be slipped freely up or down upon such rod, and the parts are secured in the desired position by a pin or catch o, passing through the lower end of the board b into one of the holes 2 or 3 in the rod a, and it is usually preferable to provide a spring to the catch or pin c for holding the same in position,which spring is represented as passing up between the shelf c and the back board b. By this improvement the clothes-drier when not in use and in the folded condition represented in Figs. 1 and 2 can be pushed up to the ceiling,or nearly so, and there held in position by the pin c entering the hole 3, and when required for use the drier can be lowered after the pin c has been Withdrawn, and such drier can be supported at any convenient height for the clothes to be hung upon the slats or arms when in a horizontal position by the pin passing into either one of the holes 2, and vafter the clothes-drier has been filled with clothes the drier and clothes can be raised bodily and conveniently by pressing against the lower end of the board b, and when properly elevated the drier is held by the catch or pin c introduced into the proper hole.

I claim as my invention ICO The combination, with a vertical rod a, havd and shelf e, connected to the face of, the ingholes at various places, of a board D, straps board b, and the movable shits f,4 substanro 5, passing around the rod d and connected to tally as set forth. the back of the board near its ends, whereby Signed by me this 1st day of June, 1891.

5 the board is movable lengthwise on the rod CHAS. E. KNOELLER.

a, a spring-catch c at the lower end of the Witnesses: board to enter the holes in the rod and sup- GEO. T. PINCKNEY, n

port the board at various heights, a. bracket HAROLD SERRELL. 

